Referring to her claim she was given free champagne from a pilot on boarding a flight she confessed: “That was a long time ago.”

And when asked about strangers insisting on paying her taxi fares she dismissed it as “that’s Paris”.

But her new-found modesty only extended so far.

When asked by presenter Eamonn Holmes how many “blokes” in a dinner party or party would find her attractive, she guessed: “All of them.”

She said: "Do I think I'm attractive? Yes, I do."

“Women do not like attractive women,” she added. “That has been proved to me by the thousands of vile messages I have had.”

Ms Brick also claimed the responses had been a “50/50” split between those to reviled her and those who felt she had “told the story of their lives.”

Holmes praised her for her honestly and for facing a barrage of critical comments from viewers, and added: “If it’s a ruse it has worked very, very well.”

&lt;noframe&gt;Twitter: Eamonn Holmes - I honestly thought the whole Samantha Brick thing was a clever publicity ruse ...but having met her , I believe she believes what she says .&lt;/noframe&gt;

Her appearance sent her name one again to the top of the Twitter trends, with people around the globe commenting on her attitude.

Her first article, for the Daily Mail, was already named the most-read web page on the day it was released, with a second follow-up article only heightening the storm after she argued “this bile just proves I’m right”.

Her words have received almost universal condemnation from readers, who resented her claims women “find nothing more annoying than someone else being the most attractive girl in a room.”

She has received a flood of vicious comments from readers, with more than 1,000 personal emails and 5,000 comments each article on the Daily Mail website.

Ms Brick even has her own parody accounts on Twitter and Facebook, with spoof articles springing up across the internet.

A bar in “Samantha Brick Lane”, London, has even changed their door policy as a result of the furore.

Vibe Bar said: “In support of Samantha Brick, and to stop beautiful women being downtrodden everywhere, the legendary venue will now only let people in who pass the Samantha Brick test and are considered at least as attractive as the journalist.”

They have provided a helpful poster displaying Ms Brick’s photograph to help bouncers make their decision.

The Huffington Post are running a quiz to test "Who said it: Samantha Brick or Derek Zoolander?" in tribute to the delusional fictional male model played by Ben Stiller.